the-burning-brand

The title really says it, but I'll elaborate; I would really like some feedback. Really. So long as it is actually constructive. (i.e. If you think I suck, that's fine; but, if you're going to make that your comment then you have to say what needs improving, how, and why.) I love to draw, and am game to try new media, but any suggestions on how to do things more smoothly or effectively would be grand. Most of the time I really feel like I have no idea what the heck I'm doing. If you've read this and give criticisms, then thank you.

More street theatre occurred as someone pulled the fire alarm in our building at 2am, Sunday morning. If it had been Monday, I think the residents would have formed a lynch mob. Most of them looked like they were ready to consider it anyway. I'm reasonably certain there was no fire despite the presence of the big, flashing fire truck, as the firemen were in no apparent hurry and an incredibly inebriated woman--drunk or high, I don't know--was being "escorted" to a nearby police vehicle while yelling and attempting repeatedly to kick her escorts. This may have had nothing to do with the fire alarm, but as there was an unused fire extinguisher

I like to read. Anyone who knows me also knows that this is an understatement. I read a lot. In doing so, I have collected a number of quotes; but, I didn't get them from reading alone: things people say in passing, in-jokes, T.V. shows, movies. They've accumulated quickly. Some are funny, some are beautiful, some are weird, and some of them make me think. "Men plan. Fate laughs." --Jim Butcher "Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a brocade,--all of the threads are there, but not the subtlety of colour or design." --Kakuzo Okakura (Yes. I understand the irony of reading